The Quinnipiac survey shows Clinton leading GOP contenders in Pennsylvania, while tying Jeb Bush in his home state of Florida.

Peter Brown, assistant director for the poll, says the numbers help explain why Hillary Clinton has employed a slower, less aggressive ramp-up to a possible presidential campaign.

“Although history suggests that once she becomes a full-fledge candidate and part of the nastiness that comes with politics these days those numbers may drop some. She begins the campaign in very strong shape with voters and not just Democrats,” said Brown. In the three big swing states she is getting 86 to 93 percent of Democrats, 36 to 54 percent of independent voters and even up to 15 percent of Republicans.”

In Ohio, the survey gives Clinton high favorability marks where she tops everyone GOP candidate and is tied with Kasich.

“Ohio Gov. John Kasich is in a statistical dead heat with Mrs. Clinton among the home folks, who re-elected him by roughly 2-1 last November,” Brown said. “But the 2014 election in Ohio was the aberration in a state that has been THE one to watch.

Gov. John Kasich says he and other supporters will keep working to persuade voters to keep an Ohio law that limits the bargaining rights of 350,000 public workers, while
a new poll suggests that's going to be hard work.

Gov. John Kasich says he and other supporters will keep working to persuade voters to keep an Ohio law that limits the bargaining rights of 350,000 public workers, while a new poll suggests that’s going to be hard work.

With just two weeks before the vote, the Quinnipiac University poll found that 57% of registered voters want to repeal the law, while 32% want to keep it. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4%.

Kasich says heÂ is undeterred.

“We’re going to keep working. We think this is the right thing to create an environment for cities to be able to be successful; we’re giving them the tools,” he said.

Supporters will make their case again Tuesday night, when a debate on Issue 2 – the ballot question on the collective bargaining law – airs on 89-7 FM andÂ NBC affiliates statewide. The event begins at 7 p.m.

The Quinnipiac University poll surveyed 1,668 registered voters by phone last week. The percentage of respondents opposing the law has almost doubled since a Sept. 27 Quinnipiac poll.

The most recent poll found GOP voters more supportive of union limits, 59% to 32%.Â However, majorities of Ohioans in numerous other categories don’t want the law, according to the poll. They include both men and women, whites and blacks, those making more than $100,000 and those making less, and both those with and without college degrees.

Kasich said the poll – which also showed a widening margin of disapproval with the job he’s doing – will not get him down.Â Â Â Â “Do I seem disheartened? I mean, I’m doing my job,” he said.
“You do your job, you put your best stuff forward, and you live by the outcome.”

He said it has been a campaign of emotion versus facts, and cited “a lot of misinformation” in prompting voters to oppose the bill.